VOLUNTEERING

Rescheduled from Jan 16! GivingCity Austin, the online magazine that helps you support the causes you care about, presents its first monthly meet-up of 2018. Join us! Volunteers and professionals from nonprofits and other mission-focused Read More

Does your Central Texas company have a philanthropic/giving budget? How do you engage your employees in philanthropy? And which causes is your organization most likely to support? An annual survey of companies in Travis, Williamson, Read More

Homelessnes? Illiteracy? Education? Conservancy? What cause really matters most to you? It’s something that all of us consider when we graduate from being a reactive giver to a more thoughtful and strategic giver. But it Read More

How did GivingCity get started and what’s our goal? Watch here as we share our work with Elizabeth Jeneault, host of Spectrum News’s new show, In Focus. The show originally aired on December 24, 2017. Read More

Nearly 800 students from several Austin-area school districts will gather on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, at the Central Texas Food Bank to unload and donate collections of food and coats for A Legacy of Giving’s Read More

The urgent need to “do something” in response to Hurricane Harvey has compelled thousands of Central Texans to donate, organize relief efforts, and volunteer. But nonprofits organizing disaster-relief efforts are asking people to be patient Read More

According to the 2015 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in every 4 American teenagers between 16 and 19 years old volunteered. Of that 26 percent who did, half of them did so without Read More

Volunteers play a vital role in the Austin community, but most don’t realize that it takes work to make a great volunteer experience. For volunteer project organizers, the work is in creating volunteer opportunities that Read More

Recruiting volunteers can require as much thought and work as raising money. In fact, there’s a professional association of volunteer recruiters and managers called Directors of Volunteers in Austin with members from some of the Read More